Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
by Brajeshwar on 4/21/2026, 1:08:25 PM
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by: wg0
The best thing for humanity, economy, technology, society, progress and environment is that this scam should come down ASAP.
4/21/2026, 2:54:01 PM
by: shubhamjain
If you think you need to spend $100B, does using a third-party cloud provider still make sense? It doesn’t matter what sweet deal Amazon is pitching—in that scenario, you’d want to own your stack. Especially in a hyper-competitive field like this, where margins are going to matter a lot soon.<p>It feels like these hyperscalers are just raising as much as they can giving extremely rosy projections becauses these sooner or later peak is going to be reached (if that hasn’t happened already)
4/21/2026, 1:47:23 PM
by: anonyfox
Sounds like moneygrab is accelerating before consumer grade local models are getting good enough for local inference in few years. Huge house of cards here. Demand skyrocketing until it’s suddenly dropping entirely with ondevice inference.
4/21/2026, 2:46:05 PM
by: iot_devs
Someone can explain to me what's the expectations for these AI labs?<p>I mostly see their products as commodity at this point, with strong open source contenders.<p>Eventually it will become hard to justify the premium on these models.
4/21/2026, 1:42:35 PM
by: jinushaun
Isn’t this kind of like the Nvidia/OpenAI deal? Just circulating debt/money
4/21/2026, 1:33:56 PM
by: sensanaty
I'm no economist, but how exactly does this make sense? Amazon is basically just giving them 5B which will then be used to repay them back 20x that amount??
4/21/2026, 1:51:14 PM
by: gabrielsroka
$25B <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844891">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844891</a>
4/21/2026, 1:50:41 PM
by: ozgrakkurt
So they are basically taking debt from amazon which is not a financial institution?
4/21/2026, 1:24:28 PM
by: zaevlad
Hope this will let them boost their capacity and offer higher limits on code models...
4/21/2026, 1:30:33 PM
by: ChrisArchitect
<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute</a><p><a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-invests-additional-5-billion-anthropic-ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-invests...</a>
4/21/2026, 1:59:32 PM
by: mikert89
hacker news is so useless, look at all these negative cynical comments
4/21/2026, 2:16:07 PM
by: secondcoming
all your GPUs are belong to us
4/21/2026, 1:59:46 PM
by: spwa4
> At the heart of this deal is Amazon’s custom chips: Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an Nvidia competitor and AI accelerator chip). The Anthropic deal ...<p>Yeah, totally not desperately seeking investment to keep the party going ...
4/21/2026, 1:24:47 PM
by: takihito
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4/21/2026, 2:18:22 PM